http://www.thefullmonte.com International news articles and video footage en-us Mon, 18 jul 2005 09:00:00 GMT Mon, 18 jul 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/rss.xml Weblog Editor 2.0 john@thefullmonte.com tim@presspit.com http://www.thefullmonte.com/congo.htm Trying to eke out an existence in the midst of all the squalor, violence, and poverty of Kinshasa, the war-torn capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), live approximately 40,000 Congolese street children. They are not there due to the war; they are there because of their parents. The latest horror that the Congolese people have gotten into is that they are accusing their children of being witches and either killing them or casting them out into the streets. Mon, 18 jul 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/congo.htm http://www.thefullmonte.com/ww2vets.htm World War II Vets Mon, 18 jul 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/ww2vets.htm http://www.thefullmonte.com/video.htm#PRO1 Streaming video: Marla Ruzicka activist for victims of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan died April 16. Mon, 25 apr 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/video.htm#PRO1 http://www.thefullmonte.com/video.htm#PRO2 Streaming video trailer: Dr. Massouda Jalal, woman candidate for president, Nasrine Gross, Rina Amiri, and women leaders building democracy in Afghanistan by New View Films. Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/video.htm#PRO2 http://www.thefullmonte.com/video.htm#PRO3 Streaming video news feature: With Marla Ruzicka, Media Benjamin, and Code Pink on the street, in homes with families in Saddam Husseins pre-war Iraq restricted to journalists. Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/video.htm#PRO3 http://www.thefullmonte.com/video.htm#PRO4 Streaming video trailer: Conversations in pre-war Iraq with families and Code Pink activists, Media Benjamin, Amira Matsuda about imminent invasion and Arab retaliation. Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/video.htm#PRO4 http://www.thefullmonte.com/video.htm#PRO5 Streaming video news feature: Fidel Castro monitored and convicted Roberto de Miranda and other Cuban dissidents of conspiring with United States and its war in Iraq. Shows Havana security apparatus. Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/video.htm#PRO5 http://www.thefullmonte.com/video.htm#PRO6 Streaming video: Afghan workers and engineers build USAID-sponsored road from Ghazni to Kandahar. Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/video.htm#PRO6 http://www.thefullmonte.com/iraq.htm The insurgency takes root in Iraq: a tale from the beginning. Read the story and see the photos in Notes from the Field. Mon, 30 May 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/iraq.htm http://www.thefullmonte.com/nepal.htm On a rock in the middle of the remote region of Rolpa district in Western Nepal, is written with white paint a Maoist saying To rebel is a peoples right. Mon, 30 May 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/nepal.htm http://www.thefullmonte.com/karabakh.htm Traveling Into a Dark Corner of the Former Soviet Union. Toward the end of my third week in the little known,officially nonexistent republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, the answerto everyone's question "Why are you going there?" smacked me square on the forehead. Mon, 30 May 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/karabakh.htm http://www.thefullmonte.com/afghan4.htm I came to Afghanistan to cover the firstever democratic elections with an American documentary film team. In the weeks leading to the Afghan elections the Taliban vowed bombings and kidnappings. Mon, 30 May 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/afghan4.htm http://www.thefullmonte.com/afghan3.htm After six weeks in Afghanistan I was about to board my Afghan Ariana flight for a ten hour nailbiter to Frankfurt, Germany to connect with my flight home. I had spent three weeks with a documentary film team following the top candidates in Afghanistans first ever democratic election. Mon, 30 May 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/afghan3.htm http://www.thefullmonte.com/afghan2.htm Judging from responses from everyone, news from Afghanistan is being overshadowed by the elections. Things are heating up, and I am slightly nervous with most all of the attacks happening within a block from where I live. Mon, 30 May 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/afghan2.htm http://www.thefullmonte.com/afghan1.htm It is a different world in Kabul from the one Im from. Destroyed mud brick buildings stand next to slow reconstruction. My eyes burn from the thick dust and pollution in the air. Mon, 30 May 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/afghan1.htm http://www.thefullmonte.com/cuba1.htm It was a group of Mormon missionaries that I had met only a few weeks earlier in Mexico that had proposed the idea of going to Cuba. They had traveled to all parts of the world and spoke Spanish so well that locals mistook them for Argentineans. Mon, 30 May 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://www.thefullmonte.com/cuba1.htm